July Films

Spiderman Homecoming - 5th July

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Shy high school student is bitten by radioactive spider, turns into superhero with spider-like abilities. Seen it before? Me too. Twice. So it’s probably just as well that Marvel have skipped the exposition and just jumped straight to the action. Plus this time it’ll have a generous dollop of Avengers mixed in, so basically you’ll have to see it if you want to see Avengers: Infinity Wars.

It Comes at Night – 7th July

Psychological horror movie about a family living in a cabin in the woods (so far so good) when another family turns up seeking refuge from what is intriguingly described as an “unnatural threat” that is terrorising the world (I call virus). Soon the cabin fills up with paranoia and mistrust as the horror outside start to pale in comparison to the fear inside. Tense and well made, but gore fans will be disappointed. Because there isn’t any.

War for the Planet of the Apes – 11th July

The CGI filled battle between the apes, led by Caeser (Andy Serkis), and the humans, led by “the colonel” (Woody Harrelson), escalates to all-out war in this third instalment of the re-booted POTA saga. Who will become king of the swingers and who will end up as an evolutionary footnote? See it and find out.

The Beguiled – 14th July

Something for everyone this month, as Sofia Coppola directs this tale of a trim-rich girls school in civil-war era Virginia. Whilst the staff and young women (Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning) take shelter from the war, they take in a wounded union soldier (Colin Farrell) and soon the halls are full of mistrust and bodice-heaving sexual tension. I’ve always said that it pays to be in the union.